Report: Mexican newspaper office set on fire in 2nd attack this month

From Elwyn Lopez, CNN

Updated 3:05 PM ET, Mon July 30, 2012

El Norte newspaper is the latest newspaper under attack in Mexico. Previously the El Buen Tono newspaper (pictured here) suffered from arsonists. Journalists have come under frequent attack in Mexico since the country declared open war on drug cartels.

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The men pour gasoline out of canisters and set the building on fire, the report says

The newspaper was also attacked on July 10

Journalists have come under frequent attack in Mexico

Two masked men set the offices of a prominent Mexican newspaper on fire Sunday, the second such attack on the daily this month.

The armed men walked into the Sierra Madre office of the El Norte newspaper in the northern city of Monterrey, threatened a security guard, poured gasoline out of canisters and lit the building on fire, the newspaper said.

Fifteen people were working in the office at the time. Nobody was hurt, the paper said. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.

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"With great respect and admiration we aim toward a different type of heroic action: one that is done by soldiers of freedom. Those who, with bravery, talent, compromise and discipline, not in a quick instant but in decades of battle, are able to improve the lives of others," the message read.

"We are referring to the 3,500 people who work at Grupo Reforma, including editors and advisers. Those who make an effort to make a claim against the unacceptable conditions which have led our compatriots to violence and desperation."

Since Mexico declared an open war on drug cartels, journalists have been kidnapped, killed and threatened -- particularly those who cover drug trafficking and institutional corruption.